Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shock of the disaster extended not only throughout the U. S. but to Europe. The Lord Mayor of London telephoned to Mayor John Daniel Marshall of Cleveland to express sympathy. The editors of the London Sketch and Daily News telephoned to Managing Editor Thomas Aaron Robertson of the Cleveland News to get the details of the tragedy for their papers...
...moment of adjournment last week, neither Britain nor Japan had requested so much as a peek. Therefore dapper Mr. Gibson put the Hoover Formula back into his brief case and returned to his diplomatic post-Brussels. Four days later, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, resolute opponent of any reduction in John Bull's navy, received a copy of the Hoover plan, not from Ambassador Gibson but from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass...
England's greatest race is the Epsom Derby (June 5 this year). A great test preliminary for the Epsom Derby is the Thousand Guineas for fillies, run last fortnight at Newmarket, won by Taj Mah. Another favorite for the Epsom Derby is Cragadour, Lord Astor's colt. Drawings were announced last week in the ?1,000,000 ($4,860,000) London Stock Exchange Derby Sweepstakes. This year two tickets were issued for each of the 335 Derby entries. A ticket on Cragadour was drawn by one Jimmie Gibbs, aged...
...father or a grandfather may tell the little ones of the house to say only half their prayers, for that night "God is nigh to his people." Thus may begin the holy feast of the Passover, symbolic of liberty, memorial to the exodus, and to the night when the Lord's angel slew the Egyptians' first-born but passed over and left unbereft the homes of the Israelites...
...Died. Lord Younger, 77, of London, famed Tory Member of Parliament, financier (breweries, banks, railroads) ; of heart disease; in London. In 1919, with Andrew Bonar Law, he swung Conservative support to the Coalition party which elected Prime Minister Lloyd George. In 1922 he swung the Conservatives the other way, caused the Prime Minister's downfall. He was called "the man who pulls the strings which make the Ministers dance...